Qur'an 3:35-37 (Surah Al 'Imran)

The Wife of ʿImrān

When your child’s story takes a different shape

Long before a baby is born, a mother can begin making room for them in her imagination, picturing the kind of person they may become, the faith she hopes they will carry, the life they might build, and the small details of a future that still exists only in prayer. Pregnancy has a way of bringing those unseen years surprisingly close, even while the child itself is still hidden from everyone but Allah.
The wife of ʿImrān carried that kind of hope with her. The Qur’an does not give us her name, though Islamic tradition remembers her as Hannah, and it brings us into her story while she is already pregnant, turning to Allah with a vow concerning the child she had not yet met.

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